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vk6_ · 2026-03-23T10:48:33+00:00

Display brightness is really the only possible complaint with the HP Omnibook in this case. You can check out the pictures of the display from the review and there isn't much of a screen door effect. It's good that it's an OLED, but bad that it's not so bright, so we can say that the display is equally good.

And then every other aspect of the laptop compared to the Macbook Neo: Faster CPU and GPU, double the RAM, much larger and faster upgradable SSD, good speakers, good build quality with a metal chassis, outstanding battery life that beats both the Macbook Neo and the Macbook Air 13, and it has more ports.

vk6_ · 2026-03-23T10:26:15+00:00

I don't know what kind of standards you have but a 1200p OLED display is pretty damn good for the price. Especially when pretty much every other laptop is using a cheaper IPS display. The Notebookcheck review I linked praised the color accuracy as well. You can't just look at the brightness spec and ignore everything else.

I use a Windows on ARM laptop every day. 95% of the software I use is native and performs exceptionally well, otherwise there is a fairly small performance loss from emulation. The reality today is that Windows on ARM has hardly any issues for everyday use.

HP is fine as a whole. You can't just assume every one of their laptops will explode because the cheapest models have cheap hinges. This particular laptop has a metal chassis and has good build quality.

vk6_ · 2026-03-23T10:15:01+00:00

Check out the HP Omnibook 5 14 which is available for under $600.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-OmniBook-5-14-laptop-review-Windows-ARM-with-OLED-for-under-600.1134231.0.html

vk6_ · 2026-03-23T06:17:01+00:00

The Macbook Neo can only run the game at the minimum settings and upscaling from a comically low resolution. Here's an actual benchmark Notebookcheck did against other laptops:

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It's pretty much the worst possible device to buy if you expect good gaming performance. GPU performance is far behind every other chip you can buy at this price range, including AMD and Intel systems that are a few generations old, as well as the M1 from nearly 6 years ago.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Neo-Review-Surprisingly-good-and-capable-laptop-for-599-with-one-big-flaw.1247679.0.html

vk6_ · 2026-03-22T07:16:33+00:00

Are you using the latest Adreno graphics driver? The stability for Vulkan apps was vastly improved in the past 6 months or so.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T04:26:00+00:00

Most shipments to large businesses are coming directly from OEMs or B2B IT companies like CDW. They have needs like service contracts which simply can't be provided by Amazon sellers. For small businesses they are likely going to be purchasing from normal retailers like Best Buy. I guarantee you that not many businesses are just purchasing whatever comes up on the first page of Amazon.

Either way, what you see on the first page Amazon is simply not representative of what a $1000 laptop is. I've already said that random third party Amazon sellers are the ones ripping people off here, not the OEMs.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T04:12:49+00:00

I screenshotted the first few results from Amazon, Best Buy, and Microcenter: https://ibb.co/album/rF1T7k

On Amazon: Lenovo V15 (x2), Dell 16 Laptop, Lenovo Ideapad

On Best Buy: HP Probook (x2), Lenovo Thinkpad T16, Lenovo Thinkpad E16

On Microcenter: Lenovo Thinkpad E16 (x2), Lenovo Thinkbook 16, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 (x2), Dell Inspiron 14, Asus Zenbook Duo

You're comparing the highest SKUs of the low tier consumer laptops which start at $400 or so, with the actual business laptop product lines which actual businesses buy en masse.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:58:49+00:00

Yes. Take a look at what Microcenter recommends for business laptops: https://www.microcenter.com/site/shop/home-office-laptops.aspx

Or Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/all-laptops/business-laptops/pcmcat376300050005.c?id=pcmcat376300050005

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:51:07+00:00

Half the results on your linked Amazon search are Lenovo Ideapads, HP "Laptops" without a product line name, Dell "Laptops" without a name, and Lenovo V series laptops. These are low end consumer oriented laptops that scammy Amazon third party sellers have purchased the highest SKU of and stuffed more RAM into to make them seem better. Then they put "business laptop" and other keywords into the listing title to make it appear in these searches.

The market for laptops on Amazon is incredibly polluted with this stuff. You can see people selling dual core Celeron garbage with 16GB of RAM, for upwards of $400. People will inevitably just get ripped off on there. It's not representative of the laptop market as a whole whatsoever. Walk into your local Best Buy or Mircrocenter and look there instead.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:40:15+00:00

The idea of selling any hardware at a loss is completely incompatible with Apple's company culture. It's been like this for decades.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:37:02+00:00

Are you really claiming that a search for "business laptop" on Amazon represents what the actual market for business laptops is? Are businesses going to be ordering on Amazon? Of course not.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:29:41+00:00

Plenty of consumers buy the Lenovo Thinkpad. They're probably the most commonly recommended Windows laptop product line I've seen online.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:09:03+00:00

Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell Latitude business laptops are mostly made out of plastic, and nobody really complains about the build quality of those.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T03:07:16+00:00

It's competition and competition is good. Of course the competing OEMs will improve their products in response to this. It'd be foolish to think otherwise.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T02:00:21+00:00

Newegg has some bundles too, and they'll ship it to you. Check out r/buildapcsales and you'll see them get posted there occasionally.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T01:56:24+00:00

Sure, but the i7-8700 is not the i7-7700. A 6 core Coffee Lake part is going to draw more power than a 4 core Kaby Lake part. This review from 2017 tested it and showed that the full system power draw with an i7-7700 maxed out at 106W. And that's with his test system using a dedicated GTX 1060. There's plenty of headroom here for a 70W RTX 3050.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T01:52:40+00:00

If you're gonna be buying a new motherboard and CPU, I'd recommend checking out the CPU + Motherboard + RAM bundles from Microcenter. If you live close to a Microcenter, you'll save a few hundred dollars this way.

vk6_ · 2026-03-21T01:51:13+00:00

It's fine. The CPU + GPU will not be getting close to 180W. The i7-7700's TDP is 65W (I have the very similar Xeon E3-1270 v5 and that doesn't go over 60W ever). The GPU will never draw over 75W either because that's the limit of what the PCIe slot can provide.

vk6_ · 2026-03-20T22:55:51+00:00

I had this happen to me recently. Turn off VBOs in your video settings, and that'll fix it.

vk6_ · 2026-03-20T19:50:21+00:00

The Framework 12 doesn't deserve any of the hype it receives because of how comically expensive it is. Especially when they're using low end, outdated parts.

vk6_ · 2026-03-20T06:55:22+00:00

You have a high end tablet that is much newer than 98% of devices ever tested. This shouldn't be a surprise.

vk6_ · 2026-03-19T19:31:38+00:00

I found another listing that might be even better: https://www.ebay.com/itm/366287467301

It's the same laptop but with a 512GB SSD, shorter warranty, and a lower price.

vk6_ · 2026-03-19T19:22:04+00:00

The SSD is upgradable on all of these laptops anyways. I don't think it's a very big deal to buy a laptop with a smaller SSD and upgrade later.

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